My camera came with a cheap 18-55mm lens that I've had sitting around for the last year. I found a video -- <a href="http://www.photographybay.com/2010/06/21/how-to-create-a-canon-18-55mm-supermacro-lens/" rel="nofollow">www.photographybay.com/2010/06/21/how-to-create-a-canon-1...</a> -- that deatils how to convert it into a supermacro lens. Totally awesome (though a crazy amount of hard work). Spent the whole night doing the conversion, so had very little time for actual photos, but here is one of the boards I'm not using anymore. Actually about the size of a U.S. Quarter!
Fallacious yet widespread and documented beliefs courtesy of Wikipedia.
Although frequently repeated as fact, a penny dropped from the Empire State Building will not kill a person or crack the sidewalk. Due to terminal velocity the speed of a falling penny cannot exceed 30–50 miles per hour regardless of the distance from which it is dropped, as demonstrated on an episode of Mythbusters.
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